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World Cup news. Covers World Cup qualifiers as well as live match coverage, detailed match reports and the latest World Cup news. You can also watch the World Cup live and listen to the three times a week World Cup special of the world famous Soccerlens Podcast.
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Welcome to Rio, land of football…and civil war
What is in the news today, may surprise some, but hardly anyone who hasn’t been in Rio de Janeiro. Well, maybe if you came to Rio with French League director Redha Chibani, who said he feels perfectly safe in the city. Clashes between police and drug cartels are going on for five days now, with…
‘All The Fish Are Sold’: Spain Claim Seven World Cup Votes
In a turn of phrase more befitting an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E than an interview regarding the upcoming World Cup 2018 voting ceremony in Zurich, the chief executive of the Spain/Portgual bid, Miguel Angel Lopez, has claimed that ‘all the fish are sold’ and that the Iberian campaign may have already (theoretically) garnered…
The Curious Case of England
It was a coming together of two world powers, so to speak. An England side that seems to have lost their way took on a France side that seems to be finding theirs. Both were still in the process of trying to blot out the same caustic memory of a depressing World Cup. Since June’s…
FIFA Complain Of ‘Sensationalism’ After Banning Six Crooked Members
FIFA’s paradoxically named Ethics committee have admitted that football’s governing body have suffered ‘very great damage’ as a result of the corruption scandal that has engulfed the entire organisation after the Sunday Times went public with the results of their covert investigation into collusion between the bidders for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. The…
England 2018 Plead With FIFA To ‘Ignore The Media’
In a development that reveals just how low they now deem themselves to have sunk in FIFA’s estimations (and how far back they have fallen back in terms of the impending vote), England 2018 have written to every voting member on the organisation’s executive committee (EC), pleading with them to not to punish the bid…
BBC Probe Threatens To Derail England 2018 World Cup Bid
Coming in the wake of the Sunday Times‘ recent cavalcade of dogged exposés, that grand old bastion of British broadcasting, the BBC, have signalled their intent to completely undermine the England 2018 World Cup bid team’s efforts by pressing ahead with the screening of a Panorama investigation into the various foul play and corruption that…
FIFA Member Deems World Cup Corruption Probe ‘Unethical’
In their incessant bid to ‘create the news’ rather than merely report it, the Sunday Times‘ (ST) undercover arm seem to take great pride in their uncanny ability to p*ss off just about everybody they come into contact with. Having already effectively enforced suspensions upon two senior FIFA committee members (namely Nigeria’s Amos Adamu and…
England 2018 Drop Complaint As Russians Grovel
The English 2018 World Cup bid team have signalled that they are now willing to withdraw the complaint they made to FIFA against the head of Russia’s World Cup bid, after receiving a grovelling (and possibly pre-emptive) apology from the Russian sports minister. Whereas anyone who has ever had the misfortune of having to spend…
Vote Rigging 101: How World Cup Votes Can Be Bought And Sold
The FIFA executive committee that votes on World Cup hosts uses an ‘exhaustive ballot’ system, whereby the candidate receiving the fewest votes in each round is eliminated until a single candidate is chosen by the majority. This method is open to corruption, and I’ll explain how below. Note that this is not a condemnation of…
Fifa World Cup Voters
They’ve got the whole world in their hands…or at least the destination of the next two World Cups, which is still more valuable than 99% of any ‘voting’ privileges you can possibly find, and arguably more valuable than a seat on the UN Security Council. The 24 men who form FIFA’s executive committee are scheduled…
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